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Ted Hughes, nature and culture
The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes?s proposition that ?every child is nature?s chance to correct culture?s error.? Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments ? political, as well as geographical ? which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, ?the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live?.
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The Proof of Love
[...]it all comes down to one of our world's most abused and vanishing resources: privacy. The details aren't anyone else's business, but for the sake of this essay, I'll point out that we had been encouraged to write to one another by a mutual friend, that I lived near Vancouver and that she lived in Edmonton, that we exchanged letters twice a month for a year before we met in person, and that after our meeting the letters intensified in frequency and - ahem - content until, eventually, we moved in together in Edmonton and the correspondence came to an abrupt end. In her book, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Nina Sankovitch writes, \"There are many examples of love letters, personal and revealing, that might have been better off destroyed, but who can bear to erase proof of love, when that might be the only talisman left to declare its existence?\" Who, indeed? When my sister was cleaning out the drawers of a bedroom dresser, she found the love letters that my father, who had died 20 years earlier, had sent to our mother while he was serving in the navy during World War II.
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The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being recognised. As well as his poetry and stories, writing for children, translations and prose essays and reviews, in recent years Hughes's own letters have received great critical attention. This Companion consolidates Hughes's life, writings and reputation. International experts from a variety of literary fields here confront the key questions posed by Hughes's work. New archival evidence is provided for fresh readings of his oeuvre with close attention to language, forms and the function of myth. Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry.
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The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes
\"Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being recognised. As well as his poetry and stories, writing for children, translations and prose essays and reviews, in recent years Hughes's own letters have received great critical attention. This Companion consolidates Hughes's life, writings and reputation. International experts from a variety of literary fields here confront the key questions posed by Hughes's work. New archival evidence is provided for fresh readings of his oeuvre with close attention to language, forms and the function of myth. Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry\"-- Provided by publisher.
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“When I’m 73 and in Constant Good Tumour”: Poetic Responses to Ageing from Jenny Joseph to Fleur Adcock
Modern poetry frequently challenges conventional narratives of ageing as uneventful and conformist through temporalities that undercut familiar archetypes, reject expected performativities, and upend canonical chronotopes, thereby questioning reductive chronological prisms through which ageing is commonly defined. Comical carnivalesque visions by Jenny Joseph (“Warning” (1961)) and Roger McGough (“Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death” (1967)) celebrate ageing as a liberation from oppressive social norms, presenting the ageing body as the ultimate counterculture fetish that eludes social control. Wistful vignettes by Ted Hughes (“Old Age Gets Up” (1979)) and Margaret Atwood (“A Visit” (1995)) foreground the difficulties of narrating ageing from an outward perspective, and experiment with nonconformist chronotopes to give ageing a voice. Confessional poems like Fleur Adcock’s “Mrs Baldwin” (2013) invite the reader to experience ageing vicariously by creating a collage-like fragment whose circularities align ageist signification with human signification at large. Collectively, these poems underscore the importance of moving beyond reductive lenses on ageing, and highlight the difficulties of narrativizing a process which by its very nature upends conventional modes of representation.
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Ted Hughes in context
\"Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is complimented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In addition, Hughes made important contributions to education, literary history, emergent environmentalism and debates about life writing. Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of the works, and conceptualize Hughes's work within long-standing critical traditions while acknowledging a new awareness of his future importance. This collection offers consideration not only of the most important aspects of Hughes's work, but also the most neglected\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An Interview Under the Influence
\"Should I take a few pictures of the collections I mentioned,\" he wrote to me, \"Barbie, sixties makeup, or whatnot?\" My inbox filled up with vintage Barbie outfits in their original packaging, pink- and orange-striped Yardley lipstick tubes from the 1960s, a doll-sized satin pink chaise longue with gold trimming to match, and a circular cane and glass-top table that once belonged to Sylvia Plath. Plath's table, which sits in my living room, and which I sit next to each morning, is very special. God, I'd love to write a whole book that way. Reading through hundreds of submissions is not unlike looking through bins of detritus at a flea market, hoping that something is going to catch my eye, some little treasure.
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